Opus 2025-328: The Theology of Singularity

I would doubt that many of you who are reading this were thinking about the concept of singularities when you sat down and began to look at the words.  Let me refresh your memory a little bit.  I’m not claiming that my scientific or mathematical knowledge it’s up to the task but I’ll give you my understanding.

Singularity is a concept, which is literally beyond human comprehension.  You can write up some really nice mathematical formulas and come up with some awesome scientific principles, but when push comes to shove, there’s no way we understand it or even come close.

However, we can at least grab hold of the concept as a whole.  The theory is that at the beginning of time and creation, whoops excuse me, time and space, all that is or would be was squeezed into a tiny little spot, so small that you couldn’t see it with the human eye.  In fact, it was so small that you probably couldn’t see it with our finest microscopes.  Picture everything that is being discovered by the most advanced telescopes and by the most overwhelming microscopic machines, everything, was squeezed into this one location so small that you can’t even comprehend it.  It was all there.

Believable?

Probably not but that’s the best they can come up with.  In spite of the fact that it is beyond our comprehension and the massive formulas used to describe it, we have to take it on faith.  Science still seems to believe in this theory.  There may be other theories that are in the same bag.  I am not aware of them, but again that doesn’t mean much.

So we have scientists who can believe that all that is was once this tiny little speck.  Why do they have such a hard time embracing the idea of a God who is even more powerful and bigger than all that?

We can describe God.  We can make lists of attributes.  We can do all the things about God that they do about singularities, except that the formulas necessary to describe Him would be even beyond the wildest imagination of the wildest mathematician.  That doesn’t stop them from believing in singularities.  The question is, why does it stop them from believing in the possibility of God?

At this point, I wouldn’t even demand the acceptance of the God of the Bible.  I would be satisfied with enough open minded honesty to even consider such a thing without an automatic response that brings to mind a child closing his eyes, shaking his head and saying, “I can’t hear you.”

Maybe I will live to see the day.  Maybe not.

homo unius libri